Monday, September 17, 2007

BC/Georgia Tech Challenge

Plez, a proud Georgia Tech Alum whose blog I peruse and admire, and I had a small wager over the BC vs GT game on Saturday night. If BC won he would have to put the BC Eagle flying proudly on his blog for 1 week and conversely I would do the same with the G Tech Yellow Jacket on my blog. Plez had all the confidence in the world when he accepted my wager.

Matt Ryan and the eagle receivers ran buck wild over the "RamblinWreck's" D while Frank Spaziani's D completely shut down the Tech's highly touted running attack leaving them no option but to attempt to throw the ball with the "noodle" armed Taylor Bennet. The announcers for the game actually uttered the words "Heisman" and "Ryan" in the same sentence on a number of occasions. Check out the Eagle over at Plez World. Oh and by the way, send your condolences to Plez. He is done crying in his bright yellow "We are number one" foam finger. It is dried out and ready to be worn next week while watching the "Wreck" pick up the pieces at Virginia in the hopes of facing BC in the ACC Championship game.

I've been rooting for BC ever since the Flutie days. Every year, I look at their schedule and say, "Well, if they can win this game and that game, they might have a chance at a national title." And every year, they miss it somehow.

Last year was particularly painful. Ohliger (placekicker before Aponovicious) personally blew two games - really, Tom O'Brien blew them by putting ths kid into pressure situations, when he had proven the year BEFORE that he didn't respond well to them. They had a serious chance to have gone undefeated last year, but didn't get the job done.

I have been going to BC games since I was a little kid. My mothers brother Mac has been working at BC for 40 years and if I didn't grow up so frickin' poor thats were I would've gone to college. I might be going to the BC/Fla. State game this year; I usually go to one game per year.

I grab a ticket once in a while. I was at the BYU triple overtime last year. I was actually thinking of trying to get one to the U Mass game. I'd like to sit back, down a brew or two, chow a handful of dogs, and enjoy a blowout.